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4OR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Optimal treatments for photodynamic therapy
Photodynamic therapy is a complex treatment for neoplastic diseases that uses the light-harvesting properties of a photosensitizer. The treatment depends on the amount of photosen...
A. Holder, D. Llagostera
FCCM
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
FPGA-based Monte Carlo Computation of Light Absorption for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy
—Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of treating cancer that combines light and light-sensitive drugs to selectively destroy cancerous tumours without harming the healthy tiss...
Jason Luu, Keith Redmond, William Lo, Paul Chow, L...
CONSTRAINTS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
CP and IP approaches to cancer radiotherapy delivery optimization
Abstract. We consider the problem of decomposing an integer matrix into a positively weighted sum of binary matrices that have the consecutive-ones property. This problem is well-k...
Davaatseren Baatar, Natashia Boland, Sebastian Bra...
INFORMS
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
An Automated Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Planning System
We design and implement an intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plan generation technology that effectively and efficiently optimizes beam geometry as well as beam intens...
Shabbir Ahmed, Ozan Gozbasi, Martin W. P. Savelsbe...
IOR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A New Linear Programming Approach to Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Problems
We consider the problem of radiation therapy treatment planning for cancer patients. During radiation therapy, beams of radiation pass through a patient, killing both cancerous an...
H. Edwin Romeijn, Ravindra K. Ahuja, James F. Demp...